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- From: kortink@cs.utwente.nl (John Kortink)
- Subject: Basic -quit bug
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.120914.10280@cs.utwente.nl>
- Sender: usenet@cs.utwente.nl
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- Organization: University of Twente, Dept. of Computer Science
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 12:09:14 GMT
- Lines: 32
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- merlin@maths.tcd.ie (Merlin Hughes) writes :
-
- >If the RISC OS 3.10 basic is unimproved, I'll be incredibly
- >annoyed. How many people have come across the problem where
- >*Basic -quit <filename> (ie double-click on a basic program)
- >doesn't in fact clear the variable space. This has the
- >delightful result that you can write code that accesses
- >variables that don't exist. Basic can find them somewhere
- >(with of course, totally screwy values), and your code will
- >run with garbage variables, and quite possibly crash (machine
- >code).
-
- Aha ! And I thought I was crazy. I have come across this so many
- times that I thought I was slipping away from reality. All those
- silly crashes on unknown variables that magically got some erratic
- value anyway... And Roger denied that it could exist ! (Sorry Rog,
- you did, several times !)
-
- >Blee.
-
- Bleargh. Fix it ! It has cost me hours and hours of useless hair-
- tearing (while I could have been nail-biting !).
-
-
- John Kortink
-
- Student of Informatics at the University of Twente, The Netherlands
- NETMAIL : kortink@cs.utwente.nl DISCLAIMER : the usual
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- 'The sun is blinding, dizzy golden, dancing green
- Through the park in the afternoon, wondering where the hell
- I have been' - Suzanne Vega, 'Cracking'
-